A team of Chinese researchers has identified eight caves in Mars’ Hebrus Valles that may have been sculpted by water. These ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less ...

Three years ago, Martian dust shrouded the solar panels on NASA’s InSight lander, preventing further operations and leading to its retirement. But the mission’s data continues to reveal information ...

For centuries, Mars has captivated the human imagination. Its reddish appearance has earned it the nickname “The Red Planet,” but is it really as red as we’ve been led to believe? While Mars certainly ...

After nearly 20 years on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has snapped its 100,000th image of the ...

But present-day Mars is famously cold and dry. "So when you see kaolinite on a place like Mars, where it's barren, cold and with certainly no liquid water at the surface, it tells us that there was ...

Space scientists have spotted a city-sized “butterfly” on Mars. A striking new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ...

Mars has lost immense amounts of water over it lifetime, and scientists aren't sure exactly how. New research hints that the planet's violently varying tilt may be a key factor. When you purchase ...

The Red Planet has a bloody history. Newly examined data from NASA’s retired InSight lander suggest that there may be giant chunks of rocky material deep inside the mantle of Mars, which were lodged ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Living in today’s age of ambitious robotic ...

Christiaan Huygens created the first recognizable drawings of Mars' surface features during the fall of 1659, an achievement made possible by his advancements in telescope manufacturing. His November ...